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Duane Marsteller
| Gannett/The Tennessean

Gender and age as well as frequency and timing of injections have been shown to be key risk factors for people developing fungal meningitis after they were treated with potentially moldy medicine, state health officials said in a paper published Tuesday.

Those at greatest risk included women at least 60 years old, those who received multiple epidural injections and those treated with vials of medicine more than 50 days old from one lot of recalled steroids, Tennessee health officials said.

Those and other details about the outbreak are contained in an article published on the New England ...